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Bob Mackie news
The gist
Bob Mackie, who dressed Cher and Carol Burnett, died Monday at 87 in Palm Springs.
His death closes a six-decade career that shaped red-carpet spectacle and TV costume design.
How it unfolded
- Mar 24, 1939Robert Gordon Mackie is born in Monterey Park, California.
- 1962Marilyn Monroe wears a sheer, beaded gown Mackie sketched for his employer, French designer Jean Louis, while singing 'Happy Birthday' to President John F. Kennedy.
- 1974Mackie dresses Cher for the Met Gala in a barely-there, sheer illusion dress with white feathers.